The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains in the Xinjiang region of China and offers insights into the origins of the dairy product known as kefir. By Kate Golembiewski Around 3,600 years ago ...
Scientists and gourmands alike have been fascinated by the recent discovery of a 3,600-year-old cheese sample from a tomb in what is now the Xinjiang Uygur region in northwestern China (Cell 2024, DOI ...
(CNN) — Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered on their heads and necks — perhaps as a snack packed for the afterlife. A ...